BILL NUMBER: SJR 19	CHAPTERED  05/09/00

	RESOLUTION CHAPTER   57
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE   MAY 9, 2000
	ADOPTED IN SENATE   JULY 15, 1999
	ADOPTED IN ASSEMBLY   MAY 4, 2000

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Solis

                        JUNE 14, 1999

   Senate Joint Resolution No. 19--Relative to federal funding for
education.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SJR 19, Solis.  Education:  federal funding.
   This measure would request the President and the Congress of the
United States to enact legislation that would eliminate the existing
hold-harmless provisions currently in effect under the federal Title
I of the federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 and
to make changes to the funding formula used by those provisions so
that all children receive their fair share of funding under that act.




   WHEREAS, The United States Census Bureau has determined that 4
million Americans were not counted in 1990; 20 percent of those
uncounted individuals live in California.  It is estimated that of
those who were not counted, over 200,000 were schoolage children
living in poverty; and
   WHEREAS, From 1990 to 1994, California experienced a 20-percent
increase in the student population eligible for funding under Title I
of the federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 and a
50-percent increase in the number of schoolage children living in
poverty; and
   WHEREAS, By 1996, when allocations of Title I funds were still
based on 1990 census data, California's enrollment figures show that
the state had over 700,000 more students than were reflected by 1990
census data, and when the census figures were updated for the 1997
allocations of Title I funding, there was still a difference of
nearly 375,000 students between the updated census figures for
schoolage children and California's actual enrollment data; and
   WHEREAS, Existing hold-harmless provisions ensure that states
experiencing a population decline in eligible students do not lose
debilitating amounts of federal dollars in any one year; and
   WHEREAS, When updated census counts were used to allocate funds in
1998, a special 100-percent hold-harmless provision was added so
that "loser" states, those that had fewer eligible children due to
the updated count or experienced a slower rate increase in eligible
children, would not lose any of the funds that they were currently
receiving; and
   WHEREAS, Solutions must be found to address this funding problem
by eliminating the hold-harmless provisions of Title I and by
changing the Title I funding formula during the current
reauthorization period; now, therefore, be it
   Resolved by the Senate and Assembly of the State of California,
jointly, That the Congress of the United States enact legislation
that would eliminate the hold-harmless provisions currently in effect
under Title I of the federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act
of 1965 and to make changes to the funding formula used by those
provisions so that all children receive their fair share of funding
under that act; and be it further
   Resolved, That the Secretary of the Senate transmit copies of this
resolution to the President and Congress of the United States and to
the United States Secretary for Education.
